adnams sothwold bitter

[don'tmakemegobackinthebox]

the recipie came from dave lines brew beer like those you buy.

23 litre

4 kg pale
170 g crystal
80g roast barley

mash at 66C for 1 and a half hours, 10.5 litres

1/2 campden tablet to treat sparge water
1 1/2 tsp gypsum

55g fuggles 19 IBU 90 min boil
30 g ekg 12 inu 90 min boil

20g ekg 0 min

grain weighed out and ready to go


mashing in. strike temp was 71.9 and i started the mash at this temp.


recirculating the wort untill it runs clear


wort going in to boiler


coming to boil and hops going in

[don'tmakemegobackinthebox]

i'm obviously too stupid to get the photos posted fitst time around. second time lucky.

i did manage to post them. the photos had magically appeared when i came back to comp.

[don'tmakemegobackinthebox]

it's now cooled and run off to FV. 23 litres @ 1040.
yeast pitched and it can live in the front room utill i can find an old fridge and get a temp controlled fermentation space built.

many thanks to brewzone for mash tun and sparge ring.

73% efficient. i'll give it 5 days in primary FV and then rack it in to a secondary, check gravity and if it's somewhere near 1010 i'll leave it some where cool before bottling around day 10 (i haven't got any spare kegs and can't afford cornies untill i've sold a kayak and some kayaking kit)

[paulcav]

Nice pics mate. Am I the only one who thought there was a stainless steel trumpet in the first pic though

[Kristoff]

Looking good there, just out of interest how far is the wort from the top of your boiler before you start the boil as it looks very full, I presume you don't get any boil overs? - how many litres are in it and what size is it? only asking, as i'm just sorting out a boiler and trying to decide what size to go for.

[don'tmakemegobackinthebox]

it's a 5 gallon electrim boiler and you have to fill it to get anywhere near 23 litres final volume. boil overs have been a problem in the past but i'm super vigilant now and don't leave it alone for a moment. probably a couple of cm gap but i collect some wort in a bucket and add that halfway through the boil when some of the wort has evaporated.


i'm suprised nobody's noticed the pants on the radiator in the background

[crow_flies]

hmmm this is one of my favourites - look forward to hearing how well this turns out - I may just do this one next!

/CF

[cooldad]

Made this in sept. Just started drinking it out of bottles not bad . Got 1040 and after 10 days in the fv went to 1005 used nottingham yeast .Didn't use the amount of hops you did 37 g fuggles 19g goldngs 20g boiler off. I did this as I have found DL recipes are a bit over hopped and so kept it to 33ibu using beersmith.Looks a good beer.

[Bongo]

Nice pics mate. Am I the only one who thought there was a stainless steel trumpet in the first pic though

lol me too,i thought maybe he sounded Reveille as he chucked the hops in.

[don'tmakemegobackinthebox]

i'm looking for a brewing hat.
a hat i wear while brewing.
but i like the idea of giving a horn a blast while adding hops.
brewing rituals? do you reckom it'll make the beer taste better?

[booldawg]

Note the reading on the digi thermometer; 66.6 Thats the sort of thing that'd rattle me on a brew day.

[prolix]

i'm looking for a brewing hat.
a hat i wear while brewing.

I wear my brewing hat everytime I brew third one down but maybe I should have got the Full rain one

[Ender]

For the DL recipe, what is the color of the crystal malt? Is there a suggested like 40, or 80? Loved this beer when I was in England awhile back.

Thanks

[cooldad]

I used 120ebc which roughly is 60l when you see in uk books crystal malt that is what they normaly mean to use.

[aceuass]

For the DL recipe, what is the color of the crystal malt? Is there a suggested like 40, or 80? Loved this beer when I was in England awhile back.

Thanks

In my local hbs they have UK crystal that states 55L-this what I use and if the color is too light I add some black patent
Cheers
Paul